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15th May 2015

Academic Year 2014-15 – Number 10

Recording at Snape Maltings Young Musicians French Exchange German Exchange Maths Photo Competition Winners DofE Awards Trips School Election PE Round Up Year 7 Basketball Golf Year 8 Football Year 7 Football Year 10 Football

YEAR 8 FOOTBALL TEAM WITH THE COUNTY CUP

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Recording at Snape Maltings F ARLINGAYE High School was

approached by Snape Maltings to see if we could provide 7 students to assist with a recording of the winning entry in a “Britten Young Songwriter Competition” organised by Aldeburgh Music. The piece was a setting of the folk song, “The Minstrel Boy”. It was scored for solo Soprano and a piccolo player who were both professionals, a harpist and our contribution, which consisted of three violinists, who were Esther Howe, Alice Brown and Eliza Burkitt; three singers who were Ruth Lovett, Marissa Mansfield and Verity Poulston plus Charlie Scott who played the side drum.

The recording was carried out by a professional sound recordist and took place in the Recital Studio. The whole process took over an hour and was extremely interesting for our students, who enjoyed the experience of working with professionals.

The staff at Snape, who supervised the recording, were extremely complimentary about the musicality of our students and their maturity. We have been promised a copy of the recording when it has been “mixed” and we look forward to hearing the finished article. Mr Phillips

Young Musicians I WAS recently accepted into

Aldeburgh Young Musicians (AYM), a Junior Conservatoire for talented musicians. There were two rounds of auditions that I had to pass to get into AYM. In the first audition, 70 applicants took part and we all had to play a piece we had prepared. They then worked on it with us and asked us questions about our personal and musical background. The audition panel then chose 35 young people to put forward into the second audition. This took place at Snape Maltings and for the whole day we were improvising, playing chamber music, in music workshops, and finally playing a whole piece, which we were all part of. This was an amazing, exhausting day, and it was brilliant to be doing this with so many talented young musicians. I was very surprised and absolutely delighted when I received a letter saying that I had been accepted into the programme as an Aldeburgh Young Musician!

Recent performances by AYM have included playing at the Royal Festival Hall, the London Jazz Festival, playing at the Latitude Festival and performing in front of Prince Charles and the Prime Minister in a concert broadcast on BBC Two earlier this year. Annabelle Cooke 9A

STUDENTS RECORDING AT SNAPE MALTINGS

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French Exchange 2015 A SMALL, excited group of students

and three members of staff gathered in the bus park at the start of the French Exchange to Clermont–Ferrand. We were soon heading towards Luton and a two hour flight to Lyon. This being the reciprocal half of the trip, French partners were already well-known, following their earlier visit to Farlingaye in February. So it was with a growing feeling of excitement that the coach finally pulled up at our destination.

Surrounded by 80 extinct volcanoes (many still with snow on them in March) Clermont lies in the very centre of France, two thirds of the way down and just fractionally south of Geneva. The evidence of the volcanoes is evident in many of the buildings and none more so than the superb gothic cathedral, whose twin black spires dominate the skyline from all sides of the city.

Set out around the enormous Place Jaude pedestrian centre of town and watched over by the great statue of Vercingetorix (known for his rout of Caesar’s military forces more than two millennia ago). The shopping delights of the city were an instant hit with our students. Trips to the national museum of theatre costume, the museum of modern art and a museum devoted to children’s book illustrations demanded

a s o m e w h a t h i g he r l e v e l o f concentration to follow explanations in technical French – but the visit to see a Master Chocolatier at work could have been understood in any language. Délicieux!

Apart from the culinary highlights of trip (and there were many) perhaps the best activity we enjoyed as visitors, was an excursion to the Michelin Museum and to see a strangely fascinating history of the pneumatic tyre. T r emendous o r i g ina l e xh ib i t s numbering cars, bikes, planes and trains were on display and we all left considerably better informed than at the start of the day. Walking past the rugby stadium afterwards, there was no need for a reminder that England were due to play France in a crucial 6 Nations match that weekend. In a city completely crazy about the sport it turned out to be a memorable afternoon for many English visitors from Suffolk.

All in all, it was a super week. This was my fourth exchange to France and, in my opinion, the best because of the way the students from both countries interacted with each other. Several follow-up visits over the summer holidays have already been spoken about between students and their correspondents and I couldn’t recommend the city, the welcome from our hosts or the trip more highly. Mr Hall

THE FRENCH EXCHANGE STUDENTS ON A DAY TRIP

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German Exchange A FTER the group from Germany

came over in October for a week, the students of Farlingaye had to wait an entire six months before we could finally fly over and visit them again. We had to be at school ready to board the coach by 3.45 am on the Tuesday we left. There followed an hour and a half of half-sleep and anticipation of the journey to come until we finally arrived at Stanstead. The plane journey was only about an hour or so but - once we had arrived in Germany - there was a further three hours on the coach before we arrived at Wurzburg.

We arrived at the school at about one and met our exchange partners who were waiting next to the bus stop for us. We met Frau Winter, one of the English teachers at the school, and she told us a little about the school before we

went home, met our exchange families and caught up with six months’ worth of news.

The next day was beautiful outside and incredibly warm and so, after dividing up and sitting in on one of the lessons, the teachers decided we would walk up to a huge castle near the village of Zell. We spent the rest of the school day there which was amazing. The views were astounding and the weather even more so. I’ll never forget rounding the corner of the castle and the entire party falling silent and just kind of staring at the view over the town.

On Thursday we drove to Coburg, a beautiful little town about three hours from where we were staying. Once there, we were “set free” upon the town and had a few hours to shop and look around. This day was particularly memorable to me because it was the first time I was confident

THE GERMAN EXCHANGE STUDENTS

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enough to ask someone for directions in German and overall this was one of my favourite days.

On Friday, we were split up once more and we went to another lesson. My group went to an English lesson with the Year 5s who had only just started learning English this year. Afterwards, we took the tram to the centre of Wurzburg where we had a tour. We also had a reception with the mayor, which was an amazing experience. We also went bowling in the evening with all of the exchange partners.

After staying with the families during the weekend, we took another coach to the town of Bamburg, where we were given a treasure-hunt-quiz to fill in and

bring back. This meant we got to see lots of historical buildings and monuments.

Tuesday was our last day and everyone was feeling a little reluctant to leave. We went to the residence; a beautiful place where the Prince Bishop used to live. This was possibly the most incredible place we went to during the whole week. After this Frau Winter threw us a little party before we finally had to leave. Polly Dawson 9A

Maths Photo Competition Winners

The Maths facultywould like to thankthe numerous entries,all of which were ofthe highest standard.

We all look forward toour competition NEXTYEAR and hope foreven more entries toenjoy!

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Duke of Edinburgh’s Award We have been very busy with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award over the past few months with Gold and Silver expeditions during the Easter break and Bronze expeditions over 2 weekends in April.

The Gold practice expedition took place on the first week of the Easter holiday with six days away in the lumpy Howgill Fells and rolling Yorkshire Dales. 17 students, formed into three groups, took part.

The expedition started with a training day in the hills around Kirkby Stephen. The weather on the training day was very poor with cold wind and almost constant rain. This tested the resolve of many of the students and it was a relief to get down from the hills and back to less severe weather.

The first day of the expedition was much better and everyone’s spirits lifted as they walked towards Sedburgh. After a reasonable night, it was off to the lovely Yorkshire town of Dent.

That day and for the remainder of the trip, we experienced very severe weather with high winds, a lot of rain and even some snow. After 2 days of enduring this, we decided to cut short the expedition and come back on day 3 instead of day 4.

The expedition was still valid as a practice under DofE rules and we were satisfied that the groups would be ready for their assessment expedition in July. The Gold groups now have to plan their qualifying expedition for 16-21st July in the Lake District.

The second half of the Easter break saw 37 silver award students in six groups travel to the Peak

District in Derbyshire for four days for their qualifying expedition. This required the use of three minibuses and a kit van, so it was quite an operation to staff and transport the expedition to the Peaks. Fortunately, it went without a hitch and up until the last hour of the final day, when the heavens opened, we were blessed with ideal weather.

We started the expedition near the town of Leek in the picturesque area known as the White Peak. The groups then travelled over three days on different routes in a south easterly direction towards the village of Tissington. The routes took the groups through dales and across heathland, camping near the towns of Bakewell and Buxton on the way to Tissington.

All groups met up at the same campsites at the end of each day and were remotely supervised throughout the expedition by a team of experienced staff and Assessors. The groups are assessed on their planning, group decision making, navigation and camp skills and must undertake the expedition in a fully self-sufficient and un-supported manner.

All groups completed their expedition successfully with glowing reports from their Assessors. The culmination of their experience will be to present a project to peers and parents on the aim of their expedition. This will be on July 1st after the final exams and before the Year 11 leavers’ prom.

We have 105 students from Year 10 undertaking their Bronze award. In January, they completed a training weekend in school, where they learned essential skills needed for the expeditions. We ran a number of workshops over the weekend with both internal and external staff

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covering route planning, map reading skills, first aid and safety procedures, and had everyone cooking lunch for the first time on Trangia camp stoves.

The 105 students have been split over two expeditions and we completed the practice over the weekends of April 18-19th and 25-26th. The weather on both weekends was mixed, but all in all, ideal for walking and camping. Everyone got to test out their waterproofs, but soon dried out as the weather changed.

The students had a thoroughly enjoyable time and apart from a few blisters and aching legs, all completed their practice expedition in good spirits. They will learn from their practice expedition and hopefully have a very successful assessment when we go on their qualifying expeditions on July 4-5th and 11-12th. These will be from Snape to Ramsholt.

We will also be holding further after school workshops to get students uploading evidence of their volunteering, physical and skills sections of the award onto their eDofE portfolios.

Just as a reminder, the route planning day for the assessed expeditions will be in school on Saturday June 27th from 10am-3pm. This was initially indicated in the introductory letter.

At all levels of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, participants are expected to undertake volunteering, physical and skills based activities. Evidence for these activities needs to be uploaded to the students’ own eDofE profile in the form of an Assessor’s report and an activity log. Even if the required time periods have

been completed, the Award can’t be presented until all the evidence has been uploaded and approved.

Please encourage your sons and daughters participating in the DofE to complete their activity sections and get their evidence approved. This will ensure that they get the credit they deserve for completing the Award. Mr Shaw

TOP: BRONZE DOFE STUDENTS IN SUFFOLK MIDDLE: SILVER AWARD STUDENTS IN THE PEAK DISTRICT BOTTOM: GOLD AWARD STUDENTS IN YORKSHIRE

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School Election O N Thursday May 7th, when the

electorate went to the polls, an election was held for the students in school. The Year 9 Gifted and Talented students went to all year assemblies as party representatives. They each gave presentations.

There was an impressive 72% turnout at the various polling stations around the school.

Year 7 students kindly counted the votes and the results are listed below.

Thank you to Mr Fitch, who organised this. Mrs Shaw

Glitz and Groove O N Saturday May 9th, FHSF held

their annual fundraiser, Glitz and Groove.

120 parents came dressed to the nines, ready for a good night out. The New Hall looked lovely and the tables were nicely set out. Everyone brought their own food, cutlery and crockery and tailored the evening to their preferences.

The band, “Grace Brothers”, headed up by our own Mr Piddington, was brilliant. Everyone was up, dancing all night. When not bopping, guests were served from the well-stocked and reasonably priced bar, organised by John O’Brien.

There were wonderful prizes on the raffle. We would like to thank the very generous donors for their lovely gifts: a massage and 10 sessions of Abs Toning from The Abs Toning Studio in Martlesham; 18 holes of golf from Seckford Golf Club; a 30 minute junior golf lesson from The Doctor Golf Academy at Ufford Park Hotel; £10 voucher from Grange Farm Shop, Hasketon; £10 voucher from The East Coast Diner; 2 £10 vouchers from Notcutts; 2 games of bowling at Kingpin; £15 vouchers from Happiness Store; £50 voucher from Fynn Valley Golf Club; Adnams non-alcoholic hamper; a gift box and photographic

Student General Election

Year Conservative Labour Lib Dem UKIP Green Total

7 96 39 13 38 62 248

8 80 31 11 33 57 212

9 69 35 16 28 65 213

10 33 24 12 53 28 150

11 60 40 19 36 51 206

12 & 13 90 90 14 18 71 283

Totals 428 259 85 206 334 1312

YEAR 9 GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS PRESENTING POLICIES IN ASSEMBLIES

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session from Mark Palmer Photography, Framlingham; 30 minute massage at The Beauty Room, Melton Park. These alone raised £317. The total raised for FHSF during the evening was over £1,500.

Thank you to everyone, who put in so much hard work to make it such a marvellous night, especially the FHSF sub committee led by Juliette Campbell Barr. Mrs Hicks

PE Round Up Year 7 Basketball

T HE Year 7 basketball team have had an excellent season, playing

well in all of their games and winning most of them very comfortably. Having beaten Thurston in their Suffolk County Play Off 38-18 the boys progressed into the County Finals. There were 4 teams who had qualified, Felixstowe, Westley, Sir John Leman and Farlingaye. The structure of the day meant that Farlingaye would play Sir John Leman and Felixstowe would play Westley. Felixstowe and Westley had a thrilling match, which Felixstowe narrowly won in overtime. Meanwhile Farlingaye played against Sir John Leman, with Farlingaye racing to an early lead in the first quarter thanks to some excellent play from Seb Mobee, Connor Slater, Raff Dawson, Haydn Sykes and Sam Cundy. This was a lead that would only grow as the game progressed, with Tom Rankin, Louie Moran, Archie Page, Tom Hindley and Tom Shannon all combining well in the second quarter. As the game developed all of the boys seemed to grow in confidence with Seb and Tom Rankin leading the way and Axel Roxburgh also making some valuable contributions. At the end of the game the boys had a comfortable 42-24 win and as a result progressed to play Felixstowe in the final.

This was another tense match, unfortunately Felixstowe were unable to play the Passarelle rules, which meant that they had to give Farlingaye a 30-0 headstart in the game. However, Farlingaye were keen to really put a stamp on the final and show that, regardless of this headstart, they were the better team. This was proved to be the case as the game progressed. Farlingaye outscored Felixstowe in all but one of the quarters and posted an impressive 54 point winning margin. The final score was Farlingaye 84-30 Felixstowe. All of the boys performed exceptionally well and should be commended for winning this trophy for Farlingaye for the first time. Special credit should go to Seb Mobee for his continual outstanding play all season, Louie Moran for a great game in the final itself, Tom Rankin for great all round play in the final and semi final and also to Tom Hindley, Haydn Sykes, Archie Page and Raff Dawson for their excellent progress this year.

Well done to all the boys, this is a truly excellent reward for all your hard work and efforts, not only in the games but also in training! Mr Payne

Golf

T HIS year’s Suffolk Schools’ Golf Team Championship was held at

Hintlesham Hall Golf Club on the March 16th. A team of Harry Fricker, George Fricker and Max McGreal represented Farlingaye, with our best two scores combining and competing against 17 other schools around the county. I teed off first out of our team in the second group of the day and shot 1 under par (41 stableford points).

George teed off soon after and came in 3 over par (39 stableford points) equalling a total of 80 points, 2 points behind Ipswich School, with Max yet to finish. For us to win, Max needed at

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least 42 points, 6 under his handicap, and to our relief he came in with 45 points meaning we had a total of 86 points. We are now off to Woodhall Spa, in Lincolnshire, for the National Schools Team Championship on July 8th, competing against the best schools from each county. Harry Fricker 10E

Year 8 Football

F ARLINGAYE’S Year 8 football team have once again won the County

Cup. The final was hosted by Needham

Market Football Club and the trophies were presented by former Ipswich Town manager George Burley. The big pitch and setting added to the prestige of the occasion.

The opposition were Sir John Leman High School (Beccles). They were a big side physically and started the game well. An early goal gave them the advantage but, when Teddy Baker had to come off with an injury early in the first half, it looked like it was going to be an uphill battle. Farlingaye had some good possession and played within their opposition’s half for large periods. However, they were unable to break through despite tireless work from Josh Knight, who has a superb game. At half time, we were far from comfortable, still trailing by the odd goal. We needed a quick response in the second half to give ourselves a chance of retaining the Cup. Farlingaye started the half well and once again played some neat football but failed to get through. Panic had begun to set in and we were resorting to getting the ball forward as quickly as possible with only ten minutes to play. In a last ditch attempt to put the game into extra time, Josh Smedley left his position as a defender and went on the attack. Within two minutes, this had paid off and a smart turn and finish from Josh put us on

level terms. With only minutes left, he forced his way past their last defender and chipped the goal keeper with the deftness of a cultured striker. It was a superb goal and a deserved victory. A huge congratulations to all of the boys who were a part of the team. Training resumes in September and we look forward to another exciting and successful season. Mr Sparkes

Year 7 Football

T HE Year 7 football team played against East Bergholt in the Suffolk

County Cup Final. It was East Bergholt who looked most likely to score early on, with their 2-4-2 formation causing Farlingaye some difficulty as they flooded forward in numbers. However, as the half progressed, Farlingaye began to settle down, with Taylor Sumpter excelling in midfield and Ben Williams looking increasingly assured at the back. As Farlingaye settled down they began to play some of the excellent football that they have displayed on occasions this season, one of these passages of play resulted in Tom Shannon being released down the left, only for him to have his shot blocked on the line by the keeper, Elliot Basket then followed up and looked certain to score, but despite cries of ‘goal’ from the crowd the referee and his assistant waved play on. It didn’t take long for Farlingaye to carve open the East Bergholt defence again though. This time Tom made certain and he smashed the ball home from close range to take his tally to an impressive 11 goals for the school this season. Despite East Bergholt responding well and creating a few opportunities, the half time score remained 1-0 to Farlingaye.

East Bergholt started the 2nd half very strongly and threatened to score on numerous occasions, in particular causing problems from set pieces.

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However, it was Farlingaye who had the best chance to score in the opening stages of the half, Elliot again having a shot cleared off the line! It was from this chance that East Bergholt broke away and scored, a long ball down the pitch allowed the East Bergholt striker a chance to outpace the Farlingaye defence and slot the ball past Seb Mobee in goal.

Seb moved upfront and we changed formation to a 3-2-3, with Seb, Alfie Prior and Riley Milsom upfront. This formation caused some panic in the East Bergholt defence and Farlingaye looked like levelling the game up, however East Bergholt scored on the break before Elliot Baskett scored a late consolation goal after some good work from Tom Shannon and Seb Mobee. Despite Farlingaye’s best efforts in the closing stages they couldn’t quite level the game up and East Bergholt ended up deserved winners of a thrilling game.

Well done to all the boys involved, you have had a great season and made some great progress this year. Mr Payne

Year 10 Football

T HE Year 10 boys’ team had qualified for their second County

Cup Final in the last 4 years, the boys previously won the competition in Year 7, beating Halesworth on that occasion. With the game being played at Needham Market FC and the trophies being presented by former Ipswich and Scotland manager George Burley, there was certainly some added prestige to the occasion. Some of the boys were more excited though that Ms Hargadon had come along to add her support.

The game was mainly contested in the middle third of the pitch in the opening stages with both teams struggling to suss each other out and Bungay’s physicality causing problems in defence for Farlingaye.

However, after a couple of tactical changes, Farlingaye started to play some nicer football, retaining the ball better and getting a few looks at goal without ever really threatening. This all changed, however, when after a throw in down the left led to Alex Tripp, Harry Fricker, Zac Cooper and Luke Coates all exchanging passes with Ellis Murrell. After the 10th pass in a very tight space, the ball was fed into Harry in the box. Using some outstanding skill, he managed to scoop the ball over two onrushing defenders straight into the path of Ellis. With the ball above his chest and the Bungay keeper well

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positioned to make a save, Ellis somehow managed to scissor kick the ball over the keeper and into the top corner, with many spectators applauding ‘one of the best goals they had ever seen’. This goal seemed to settle Farlingaye a bit and, even though Bungay plugged away, it was Farlingaye who looked the more confident as half time approached.

With the scores 1-0 to Farlingaye at half time, the boys headed into the changing room for a quick tactical chat.

Farlingaye started the 2nd half looking even more composed and much more assertive, despite this Bungay had the first real chance of the half, with a long ball over the top allowing a Bungay striker clean through on goal. Fortunately for Farlingaye, Max Davis tracked back well and Phil Carlstroem stood strong in goal forcing the striker to hit the ball straight at Phil. It was from this stage that Farlingaye then

really asserted themselves on the game, Ellis appearing in little pockets between defenders, Alex troubling defenders on numerous occasions and Harry Fricker and Reece Bowater increasing their grip on the midfield. Ryan Milbourne made it 2-0 on 55 minutes, hitting an accurate shot across the keeper from 15 yards out, Alex then added to this, stabbing home from close range.

As the game continued, Farlingaye never looked in danger of losing this lead and any attacks were quickly thwarted by both Luke Coates and Max Davis, who both had a good game. As a result, the final score was 3-0 to Farlingaye and the boys were quite rightly crowned County Champions after an excellent season!

Well done to all the boys involved in the squad this year, it has been a great team effort with everyone contributing. Mr Payne